THE HOWARD AND GEORGEANNA JONES
FOUNDATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE 
Officers and Directors

Ibrahim M. Oweiss, Ph.D., C.St.J.
GU-Qatar, 102C LAS Building
Education City
e-mail: oweissi@att.net

Dr. Oweiss is an educator and an international economic advisor. He is a Professor of Economics at Georgetown University in Qatar He joined the faculty of Economics at Georgetown in 1967. He had also served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 1961-67 and that of Western Maryland College. In 1997-98, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He also taught at Johns Hopkins University. While on leave from Georgetown University, he was appointed in the Egyptian Cabinet as First Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs in August 1977-79. With a rank of Ambassador, he held the position of the Chief of the Egyptian Economic Mission to the United States headquartered in New York. Dr. Oweiss earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Alexandria University in Egypt majoring in economics and political science, while his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in economics were earned from the University of Minnesota in the USA. Among the positions he held prior to his departure to the United States was the Director of the Department of Industrial Projects in Cairo. Dr. Oweiss is a USA citizen.

As an international economic advisor, he worked for several governments and multinational corporations in the USA and abroad. In addition, Dr. Oweiss is the President of the Council on Egyptian-American Relations. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. He held other volunteering positions among which were the Chairman of the Board of Faith & Hope USA (1975-77) as well as that of the Foundation of the Jones Institute at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk (1983-90) after which he was voted as an Honorary Chairman for life. He was elected for two terms as the President of the Association of Egyptian-American Scholars (1984-88). Dr. Oweiss was one of the founding members of Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies as well as the College of Commerce and Economics at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. For a brief time, Dr. Oweiss was an advisor to former President Jimmy Carter after having left office in 1983 and was one of the Professors of former President Bill Clinton.

Dr. Oweiss authored over sixty scholarly publications among which were: Petrodollar Surpluses, Arab Civilization, The Political Economy of Contemporary Egypt, The Arab Gulf Economies Challenges and Prospects and in a pioneering work on oil revenues, he coined the terms "Petrodollars" and "Hostage Capital" in 1974. The "Oweiss Demand Curve" was first presented at Oxford University in 1982. Together with Dr. Hemmat H. Safwat, Dr. Oweiss co-authored Economics: New Horizons, Shifting the Paradigm. This new 2002 publication offers a completely new contribution using human exchanges as the core of economics. In 2003, he published A View on Islamic Economic Thought based on the Annual Distinguished Lecture he gave at Georgetown University. He is currently writing a book on globalization.
In addition to other national and international honors, President Sadat awarded Dr. Oweiss with Egypt's Order of Merit, First Class. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth sanctioned his admission to the order of St. John. In addition, he holds the Grand Cordon of the Order of Mohammed Ali Pasha and the Knight of the Order of the Queen of Sheba as well as the Burmese Knight Grand Commander. Dr. Oweiss is married to the former Miss Céline Marie-Joseph Lesuisse. They have one daughter Yasmeen and one son Kareem.